Absolutely. And I'm baffled some people are still falling for it.
How can there be any such thing as 50% regaining of respect for a mission set out and accomplished? Kyle and [H] have completed their mission in every way, so I'd expect this kind of rebuttal after the fact, but a bit confused by those that aren't able to figure out the reality.
Marketing lives by increasing returns. It's a goal of IHVs with new product releases. This goal is to get a new product momentum on the market since once this momentum is established, it's fairly hard to slow down. It's the same old story as the old VHS/Beta debate, even though Beta was technically superior.
Figure Car A and Car B are released and assume both are equal. If a consumer goes out and randomly buys Car A, when he gets it home, more people are exposed to Car A and therefore rules of increasing returns may give Car A additional sales (which in turn improves the effect). Car A has been given the momentum to likely surpass Car B, even though both are assumed equal. It's standard marketing practice.. and in the case of Beta/VHS, the one with the initial momentum was even inferior to the previous.
The current generation of video hardware relies on the same kind of marketing momentum, but with the side effect of manipulation by the IHV. Kyle/[H] participated in this manipulation and has done so throughout the entire product release, preview and review process. Other websites did this during the preview/pre-release process, but fell back during the review process due to moral implications or felt the manipulation was too obvious or insulted the intelligence of the consumer. [H] stuck to the program and continued to form the agenda.
It is just silly now that the entire product preview, release, review cycle has been totally manipulated... (as in long, long Game Over) to then go back and try to take the opposite standpoint. People should be more intelligent than to suddenly think it's "okay" to participate in such agenda, then months after the fact to think an appology will regain confidence and re-establish the source as being somewhat trustworthy. The deals have been done. The mission/goal was completed 100%.
The only way Kyle/[H] can regain confidence is for the next generation of hardware to be unbiased or without agenda/IHV manipulation. There is absolutely nothing that can be done now that the whole process is over to objectively regain this. From the standpoint of manipulating initial product launch/IHV agenda, it has been done to completion.. and still stands on his pages unchanged.
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